G. Salisbury.
PRIVATE, Review Order. OFFICER, Marching Order. PRIVATE, Marching Order.
1829–1832.
About the middle of November the regiment embarked at Balaclava for Ismid, where it landed on the 15th. Its strength on embarkation was 15 officers and 291 non-commissioned officers and men, with 224 horses; and the whole of it was carried in two transports, the Candia and Etna. A corporal and five men were left behind to do orderly work in the Crimea. 1856. At Ismid the Seventeenth was brigaded with the 8th and 10th Hussars, under Brigadier Shewell, 30th Mar. and there remained until after the proclamation of peace.
On the 27th of April a sergeant’s party of seventeen men and sixteen horses was embarked in the transport Oneida, and two days later the bulk of the regiment, 18 officers and 442 men, with 171 horses, embarked in the Candia, homeward bound. The whole arrived at Queenstown on the 14th May, having suffered no casualty but the loss of a single horse on the passage.
On landing, the regiment was quartered at Cahir barracks (where it was joined by the depôt squadron from Brighton), with detachments at Clogheen, Clonmel, Fethard, and Limerick. It had not been at home two months before it was employed at Nenagh in aid of the civil power. 12th Sept. In September the regiment was moved up to Portobello Barracks in Dublin, 10th Nov. and two months later was reduced to six troops once more, with an establishment of 28 officers, 442 non-commissioned officers and men, with 300 troop-horses. 1857. 7th Mar. Early in the following year it moved to Island Bridge Barracks, where all the elaborate arrangements for quarters and reduction of establishment were upset by the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.
CHAPTER XIII
CENTRAL INDIA, 1858–1859
1857.
For the better understanding of the share taken by the Seventeenth Lancers in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, it may be well to set down as briefly as possible the principal events that had taken place before their arrival—